Joseph Stauffer

Two armed robbers held up and assaulted employees at the Pizza Hut restaurant at 2302 Union Blvd. Wednesday night, police said. Around 10:35 p.m. two men wearing masks and carrying handguns entered the Pizza Hut, assaulted employees and took money from the store, according to Capt. Joseph Stauffer. No shots were fired and injuries were minor, he said. Stauffer said they didn't know how much money was stolen, but described the assailants as two Hispanic males, 18-22 years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall, and weighing 165 pounds.

An Allentown man was arrested Friday after a 7-year-old girl pointed a loaded gun he owned at two 12-year-old boys in the 1400 block of Liberty Street and threatened to shoot them, Allentown police said. Police said the girl confronted the two boys, Jameel Wilsher, who is staying with relatives at l401M-= Liberty St., and Tymell Briggs, of 26 S. Howard St., around 3 p.m. Friday and accused them of stealing her scooter. When the boys said they didn't have the scooter, the girl went to her grandmother's house at 1432 Liberty St. and got a gun belonging to her uncle, Jason Person, 25, also of that address, said Capt.

Allentown police are trying to determine the origin of `a significant amount" of what might be blood found Friday morning on a sidewalk in the 100 block of Tilghman Street. Police were called to the scene at 6:56 a.m. and blocked off the sidewalk for about two hours while they took samples, Detective Capt. Joseph Stauffer said. The substance will be tested to determine if it is blood, and whether it came from a person or an animal, Stauffer said. "We're now looking to see if there were any incidents that occurred that are linked to this," he said.

ALLENTOWN A Good Samaritan used his car to knock down a suspect in a stabbing that occurred at 11th and Turner streets Tuesday night. Police Capt. Joseph Stauffer said the motorist saw the stabbing and reacted by bumping the knife-wielding man with his car. The bump was just enough to knock Jose Liriano, 40, of Allentown to the ground. The motorist then called 911 on his cellular phone. Liriano was lying in the street when police arrived. He was not injured, Stauffer said. Police would not disclose the motorist's name.

Authorities identified the man shot and killed early Tuesday at a N. Sixth Street, Allentown, home as a 22-year-old man from Brooklyn, N.Y. John Williams of 1682 Park Place was pronounced dead at 2:04 a.m. at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Salisbury Township, said Scott Grim, Lehigh County coroner. Williams' death was caused by gunshot wounds, said Grim, who ruled the death a homicide. Allentown police received a 911 call about 12:15 a.m. Tuesday. At 409 N. Sixth St., police found Williams dead, said Detective Capt.

Two women were assaulted in their homes in separate incidents over the weekend, Allentown Detective Sgt. Joseph Stauffer said. The first woman, believed to be about 56, was assaulted in her home in the unit block of Tilghman Street shortly after 7:30 p.m. Friday. She was admitted to Sacred Heart Hospital following the assault, Stauffer said. The second woman, an 88-year-old resident of the 200 block of Bryan Street, was assaulted yesterday afternoon in her home. She was being examined late yesterday afternoon in the Sacred Heart emergency room.

Allentown police want to interview a Bethlehem man shot numerous times Monday night at Sixth and Turner streets in Allentown. Aby Joel Gonzalez, 24, was shot in the stomach, the wrist and the knee in the 10:04 p.m. shooting, said Allentown police. Capt. Joseph Stauffer, commander of the department's Criminal Investigations Division, said police are not aware of anyone else who was struck. People on foot fired the shots, Stauffer said. A witness heard four shots. Police said they recovered four shell casings at the northeast corner where Gonzalez was shot.

Allentown police are awaiting the extradition of a New York City man they say shot another New Yorker on Sunday in Allentown. The New York Police Department charged Emmanuel Denis, 22, with shooting Gerald Serlin several times in the head and torso inside an apartment at 501 Allen St. about 10:30 p.m., said Allentown Capt. Joseph Stauffer, head of the detective bureau. Denis was charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment Monday afternoon in upper Manhattan, Stauffer said.

For the second time this year, a high-ranking commander in the Allentown Police Department is heading to Quantico, Va. for training at the FBI National Academy. This time, detective Capt. Joseph Stauffer, 43, is headed south starting Sept. 27. Stauffer will be at the academy for three months of training, returning to Allentown on Dec. 11. Stauffer follows Chief Gerald M. Monahan Jr., who attended the training program for law enforcement executives at Quantico in June. "I'm just looking forward to going," Stauffer said.

ALLENTOWN A Good Samaritan used his car to knock down a suspect in a stabbing that occurred at 11th and Turner streets Tuesday night. Police Capt. Joseph Stauffer said the motorist saw the stabbing and reacted by bumping the knife-wielding man with his car. The bump was just enough to knock Jose Liriano, 40, of Allentown to the ground. The motorist then called 911 on his cellular phone. Liriano was lying in the street when police arrived. He was not injured, Stauffer said. Police would not disclose the motorist's name.

Three masked men shot and seriously wounded an Allentown man in his apartment early Tuesday, police said. Woodie Dotson, 22, was leaving his apartment in the 300 block of Tilghman Street just after midnight when three men forced him back inside, police said. They shot him "numerous" times in his body, police said. "It would appear this apartment was targeted and that this wasn't a random incident," said Capt. Joseph Stauffer, head of the Allentown Police Department's Criminal Division.

Two Allentown teenagers were shot Friday afternoon on a center city street corner, police said. Eric G. Triminio, 19, suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen, police said, and was in surgery Friday night at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Salisbury Township. Christian Febus, 17, of 637 N. Penn St. sustained a graze wound to a tendon in his heel, police said, and was treated at Sacred Heart Hospital and released. Luis Hernandez, 14, of Tilghman Street, escaped injury when a bullet passed through his pant leg, police said.

Two men were injured in separate shootings in Allentown within hours of each other late Thursday and early today. In the first shooting, a man in a sport utility vehicle was shot about 9:30 p.m. Thursday in Hanover Acres by a gunman wearing a mask, Allentown police said. The later shooting occurred around 1:45 a.m. today, when a man was shot in the head, possibly the face, near the corner of 11th and Oak streets, a neighborhood resident said. That victim also was taken to a hospital by ambulance.

A Slatington man faces indecent assault and related charges for four incidents of exposing himself to, or improperly touching, children in Allentown parks over six months, police said. Ronald Louis Beck, 61, of 700 Main St. was arrested Saturday afternoon after, police said, a plainclothes Allentown police officer saw him acting suspiciously in Jordan Park. He was charged with four counts each of indecent assault, indecent exposure and corruption of minors, said Capt. Joseph Stauffer, head of the Allentown Police Department's Criminal Investigations Division.

Allentown police have filed more charges of sexual assault and indecent exposure against a city man who has been connected to seven similar incidents. Derickson Rodriguez, 27, of 514 N. Jordan St. was charged Tuesday with indecent exposure, indecent assault and open lewdness in a July 17 incident at Lehigh Parkway. Police said he exposed himself and grabbed a woman's breasts and buttocks. He was arraigned before District Justice Diane Jepsen and returned to Lehigh County Prison under $10,000 bail.

Allentown police are trying to determine the origin of `a significant amount" of what might be blood found Friday morning on a sidewalk in the 100 block of Tilghman Street. Police were called to the scene at 6:56 a.m. and blocked off the sidewalk for about two hours while they took samples, Detective Capt. Joseph Stauffer said. The substance will be tested to determine if it is blood, and whether it came from a person or an animal, Stauffer said. "We're now looking to see if there were any incidents that occurred that are linked to this," he said.

A North Carolina man was arrested Monday night and charged with trying to kill an Allentown man at Mohr and Allen streets in Allentown, police said. Steven R. White, 30, of Wilmington was charged with attempted homicide, aggravated and simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, possession of instruments of a crime and firearms not to be carried without a license, police said. White fired multiple shots from a .357 Magnum at a 19-year-old Allentown man about 9 p.m., said Capt.

Allentown police Saturday night arrested the second suspect wanted in connection with a July 20 street murder of a city man. Quaan Shekeim White, 22, no current address, was taken into custody at the Airport Road Motel, 1117 N. Irving St., without incident, said Detective Capt. Joseph Stauffer. White had been wanted for the shooting of Michael Barry Murdaugh, 19, of Allentown and New York City, who was killed at 5th and Turner streets. Allentown police Thursday arrested the other man sought for the shooting, Anthony James Lee, 24, address unavailable, after he was spotted running into 509 Turner St. Stauffer said a police investigation determined White was at the motel, and responded with the the department's Emergency Response Team, a S.W.A.

Allentown police want to interview a Bethlehem man shot numerous times Monday night at Sixth and Turner streets in Allentown. Aby Joel Gonzalez, 24, was shot in the stomach, the wrist and the knee in the 10:04 p.m. shooting, said Allentown police. Capt. Joseph Stauffer, commander of the department's Criminal Investigations Division, said police are not aware of anyone else who was struck. People on foot fired the shots, Stauffer said. A witness heard four shots. Police said they recovered four shell casings at the northeast corner where Gonzalez was shot.

Patrol officers acted appropriately while investigating a gunshot complaint early April 2, even though they didn't find a man who had been fatally shot until 4 hours later, an Allentown police captain said this week. Physical evidence, such as blood and shell casings, indicated that the victim fled his attackers in the opposite direction from where his body was found, Detective Capt. Joseph Stauffer said. Also, it's likely that officers who responded to the gunshot complaint didn't have accurate information that would have led them to the victim, Stauffer said.